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Preventing Genocide – Human Rights Shabbat 5781 (2020) Resource Pack
For this year’s Human Rights Shabbat, we are focusing on the theme of Genocide and asking the question: ‘How can the Jewish experience and principles inform the prevention of genocide today?’
Human rights at risk in the UK government’s planned overhaul of the asylum system
by Reanna Smith The UK government has recently promised to make big changes to the UK’s asylum and immigration system,...
The Disability Crisis – waiting on the next big fix in social care
By Mitchell Woolf NOTE: this article is a summary of a webinar Mitchell gave on 7 October 2020 as part of the René...
Joint Submission: Forced Labour in UK Value Chains
René Cassi recently signed on to a joint submission as part of the Coalition to End Forced Labour in the Uyghur Region...
Essay competition, events & recruitment for growth – newsletter 3 November 2020
We’re growing! So we’re recruiting Campaigns Officers … our essay competition tackles the urgent issue of genocide … and our Human Rights Act film features in the Jewish Film Festival
Campaigns Officers (2 posts)
Join our growing team – apply by Monday 16 November
The Modern Day Babel Fable
By Dr. Sheldon Stone, René Cassin Fellow and Campaign Associate, Advisory Group to STOPUYGHURGENOCIDE, World Uyghur...
Join the Campaign to #CutItOut
Help us campaign to stop hate speech and hate crime
Standing Together Against the Pandemic of Hate
By Minnie Wiggins, René Cassin intern This year’s National Hate Crime Awareness Week (10-17 October) seeks to bring...
The Human Rights Act – 20 years of our Key to Fairness!
Today marks twenty years since the Human Rights Act came into force in the UK. For two decades fundamental...
Human Rights Shabbat 5781 (2020)
‘How can Jewish experience and principles inform the prevention of genocide today?’ Update 2 December 2020:...
Why is genocide still happening, and what can we do to stop it? – ‘Human Writes’ essay competition
Judged by Lord Finkelstein. £100 prize. Deadline 9 November.
Chained Women: Human Trafficking and Sex Slavery of Jewish Women in the 20th Century
By Lesley Urbach, René Cassin Fellow At the end of the nineteenth century and early twentieth century Jewish European...
Time for action to halt Uyghur genocide – newsletter 14 August 2020
Human rights as an optimist’s creed … action to support Uyghur Muslims in China … remembering Srebenica … become a René Cassin Human Rights Ambassador
What has the Human Rights Act got to do with us?
Discover how our human rights safety net helps ordinary people in their everyday lives. Debora Singer MBE is the...
René Cassin Human Rights Ambassador Programme
An enriching, leadership-orientated initiative to empower young Jewish human rights activists
Make a donation today to … Stop Uyghur Genocide
Please help Rahima and her fellow Uyghurs
We will not forget Roma genocide, says Jewish human rights charity
Sunday 2 August is Roma Genocide Remembrance Day. It marks the 76th anniversary of the murder of 2,897 Roma men women...
“Chilling Echoes” – the plight of the Uyghurs
Livestream event – Thursday 23 July, 8pm
End Uyghur Forced Labour in China Now
René Cassin joins worldwide coalition of 198 organisations
Women’s Environmental Leadership – how a human rights approach can help people and the planet
By Eva Rehse and Sandy McClure, Global Greengrants Fund UK We need to act now to protect our planet, which is facing...
Remembering Srebrenica
11 July 1995
Solidarity Iftar with the Muslim Uyghur community on 4 May 2020
Watch a recording of the solidarity Iftar held on 4 May 2020
Virus crisis – yet another reason to close immigration removal centres
“… an unnecessary evil and a totally avoidable catastrophe”
Write to your MP!
Ask them to support amendments to the Immigration Bill on a time limit for detention
‘Reimagine our society as a diverse and knitted-together mass of communities’
By Rabbi David Mason, Muswell Hill Synagogue I was asked recently, by the Jewish human rights organisation René Cassin...
Imagine – an end to immigration detention
Coronavirus has shown us that radical change is possible
The kindness of strangers
A Refugee Week poem by Debora Singer
China’s systematic oppression of Uyghur Women
René Cassin Briefing Paper - May 2020 Close to three million Muslim Uyghurs and other Muslim ethnic communities in...
‘Safeguarding UK’s human rights law – partnership or challenge?’
René Cassin virtual roundtable, 20 May 2020 with Rebecca Hilsenrath, CEO, Equality and Human Rights Commission chaired...
We choose to speak out and stand up in solidarity with black people. Black lives matter.
René Cassin strongly condemns the unjust acts of state violence over the killing of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and...
Call for action: this is what you can do for the Uyghurs
Support a Legal Challenge to Govt Decision to Allow Huawei 5G Network Access through this link. The legal challenge by...